Obviously what I have to tell on this page is based on the publications by Peter Boyce of former Kew lore. The culmination of Peter's work is his book on Arum (which you ALL have.....no doubt!!!). It must have been a joy working on the family-name bringing genus itself! Formerly the Arum-link in the genus list on this website was direcly linked to a paper by Peter on the species of Greece and Cyprus. We have left that paper on the website and you can read it by clicking here.

The species list below contains only partial synonymy. The choice being for those synonyms that regularly appear in literature and discussion. names in Arum of species that belong to other genera are numerous and only few well-known ones have been included.

Relevant recent literature on this genus is:

Boyce, P.C., 1989. A new classification of Arum with keys to the infrageneric taxa. Kew Bull. 44: 383 - 395. (a precursor to his Magnum Opus).

Boyce, P.C., 1993. The genus Arum. HMSO/Kew. 196 pages (if you don't have this, you are not allowed to view these webpages!!).